The Archive · 1928

Plea for Publicity

The first public trial of 99 alleged communists who were arrested Jat the time of the round-up of radicals I spring took place this in Two-Day Battle Brow On OwN ComEsroNnEsT

Canton, Nov, 13.

In a bitterly-contested engage-

Agree. But the Chinese church morning. of the Third. Divison, under' the ment that lasted two day: art

saddled with an expensive "plant.") rhe judge was about to commence Assistant Commander, There are schools and colleges.) the examination when three of the Mung Chi, attained its object, hospitals and churches which re- defendants requested that the pro- penetrating into the Communist quire much more money foretheit ceedings should be made public or, stronghold. of Shektong, in the upkeep than the straggling Chinese alternatively, shank can' poeely Rs Aint [te held simultaneously in Tokyo and vanquishing the enemy. Over two that the trial should Fayuen district, and completely

Kelp from the instars that ult [ASHS The Jodze reserved "his hundred prisoners were taken, and the bodies of more than two hundred and now bequeath these properties to it. But a subsidized church can A lively scene occurred shortly enemy dead bear mute evidence of searcely be called an independent before the opening of the trial the stubbornness with which th3 church and the riddle the editor when friends and relations of the rebels fought for every inch of propounds to his readers is to prisoners attempted to enter the ground. concile the two sides of this per-For more than a year Shektong plexing. situation, ting, despite the fact that were has been a Red fortress, and it hast The Rev. Donald Fay writes on, prohibited from doing so. They en-stood repeated attacks of "Shall missionaries renounce the gaged in a tussle with the police, gular troops, who grew to fee! that wish of the people of the sending. the result that several are the place was impregnable. Aero~ countries?" He does not tell us were made. planes flew over the village and what the wish of the sending coun-Grenped bombs, boats tried to mako

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